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Afton, Chenango, New York, USA
"Afton, a post-village in Afton township, Chenango co., N.Y., on the Susquehanna River, 28 miles by railroad E. by N. of Binghamton, and 114 miles W.S.W. of Albany. It has 5 churches, a bank, a newspaper office, a union school, and manufactures of sash and blinds, butter-firkins and tubs, &c. Pop. in 1890, of village, 683; of township, 2083."
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ...
Joseph Thomas
January 1, 1895
J.B. Lippincott
"Afton, a post-village in Afton township, Chenango co., N.Y., on the Susquehanna River, 28 miles by railroad E. by N. of Binghamton, and 114 miles W.S.W. of Albany. It has 5 churches, a bank, a newspaper office, a union school, and manufactures of sash and blinds, butter-firkins and tubs, &c. Pop. in 1890, of village, 683; of township, 2083."
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ...
Joseph Thomas
January 1, 1895
J.B. Lippincott
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- The area of Afton was first settled around 1786.
www.wikipedia.org - The town of Afton was founded from part of the town of Bainbridge in 1857.
www.wikipedia.org - 1869 - Afton
AFTON was formed from Bainbridge, November 18, 1857. It is the south-east corner town of the County. The surface is a rolling upland, separated into...Read MORE... 
East Side of Main Street
Main Street, Afton, N.Y.
The Old Suspension Bridge
Main St.
Baptist Church, 1907
Main St.
M.E. Church, 1908
Band Stand looking west
Pixley Glen
D. & H. Depot
High School- 1916
Afton, a banking post-village of Chenango co., N.Y., on the Susquehanna River and on the Delaware and Hudson R., 28 miles E. by N. of Binghamton. It...Read MORE... 
New Victoria Sewing Machines and Supplies
A. R. Acly, Jeweler, Afton, N.Y.
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